Retain is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETAIN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to keep possession of
• continue to have (something); keep possession of
• not abolish or alter; maintain
• absorb and continue to hold (a substance)
• keep (something) in place; hold fixed
• secure the services of (a barrister) with a preliminary payment
• To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.
• To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
• To restrain; to prevent.
• To belong; to pertain.
• To keep; to continue; to remain.
• hold back within
• allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
• secure and keep for possible future use or application
• keep in one\'s mind
• keep in one's memory
• keep (someone) engaged in one's service
• keep in one's possession
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• keep in one\'s possession

Words related to RETAIN

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Words that contain RETAIN

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How to use RETAIN in a sentence

• He would at least in those circumstances retain of her a recollection fond and tender.
• They were usually sons of oreros or priests, and trained by years of study to retain volumes, as actors do parts.
• A heavy growth of trees and shrubs has a similar effect by serving to retain the moisture in the soil.
• On the contrary, it allows, and indeed encourages, the several nations to retain their languages, habits, manners, religion, laws, and modes of local government.
• Husbands retain all their rights and privileges in their own gentes, though they live with the gentes of their wives.
• Ralph was a very feeble child, and could only with great difficulty be persuaded to retain his hold of the slender thread which bound him to existence.
• It was time for the Austrians to be moving, if they would retain any possessions in the Alpine realm of rocks.
• I retain a good activity of mind, not quite as much of body, but uninterrupted health.
• We shall no longer retain our separate individuality, but become a single individual as to all questions submitted to the confederacy.
• Revelation does retain its peculiar and unique significance.
• It is also easier to retain and reproduce some idea that has once been grasped with full feeling of interest.
• The subsequent proceedings of the parliament, if this diminutive assembly deserve that honorable name, retain not the least appearance of law, equity, or freedom.
• But what was he to do if he could not retain it? No sooner had Mr.
• The authorities have evidently considered it more important to retain established approach levels than to provide proper capacity for river water.
• It was enough to cause their present owner to strain every nerve to retain them, because they were so universally objected to.
• An explanation may fail to make every point clear and yet retain some valuable elements, but an argument fails of its purpose if it does not establish a belief.
• We know, every intelligent man knows, that there is no stronger desire in the breast of a Mexican citizen than to retain the territory which belongs to the republic.
• As soon as they went away, I endeavoured to mutter to myself the sounds they had uttered, but could retain only two phrases.
• I suppose I have a considerable organ of veneration, for I retain yet the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps.
• I can no more retain permanently the physical elements of my personality than I can the mental or spiritual.
• With practice one may retain breath steadily for hours, days, months and even years.
• After a short time two of the officers of the Inquisition went to Amine and raised her again in her seat, and she recovered sufficiently to enable her to retain her posture.
• Then Durville and others made heated addresses in which they declared that Prescott could no longer consistently retain the class presidency.
• Whatever conclusion you may perforce arrive at as to my present condition and the innocence of my mind, let me at all events retain your friendship.
• It is impossible that the laughter of older people should retain this sound of perfect music.

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